Who sent anonymous text to victim's dad after Chilliwack hit-and-run?

Five days after a hit-and-run driver left his daughter in a coma, Chilliwack's Dan Pinto received a chilling text.

Five days after a hit-and-run driver left his daughter in a coma, Chilliwack’s Dan Pinto received a chilling text.

“I get a text message saying it wasn’t his fault. It was purely an accident,” said Pinto.

But the mystery of who sent that text and how they even knew Pinto’s number, remains unsolved.

On Oct. 13, 2021, Pinto’s daughter, Bernice Lorenz, was walking beside Keith Wilson Road when her life was forever changed.

“(I was) going to the neighbours' (house) and a car hit me,” said 56-year-old Lorenz, who spent nine months in the hospital and has almost no memory of what happened.

Her dad recalls searching for her in the dark when she didn’t come back from the neighbours' place.

“I started calling her name and every time I called her name, I hear this growling sound,” he said.